It is worth contemplating an imaginary situation where the UK electorate goes wild and votes for some significant improvements in how we are governed.
To achieve this crazy, impossible, radical ambition, the chosen political leader and his or her party would have to tackle the national debt, excessive government borrowing, excessive taxation, excessive spending, absurd energy policies, the Civil Service, immigration policies, excessive regulation, the NHS, policing, the armed forces, the MoD, a range of education problems, including universities, useless quangos, taxpayer-supported charities think tanks, the BBC and other activist organisations…
And potholes.
This level of political commitment would inevitably label the imaginary political leader and his or her party as extreme, extremist, far right, mad or whatever tired old labels come to hand. The political bar is already too high and there is too much personal profit for politicians to shove it a little higher. As the good folk of Makerfield should have known.
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Perhaps the best we can say about the voters of Makerfield is that they picked the best choice from a poor menu.
I'm far from convinced that Burnham is the best answer, but a vote for any of the other parties, even Reform, was unlikely to achieve much. Voting in a General Election will be a different matter.
"the national debt, excessive government borrowing, excessive taxation, excessive spending, absurd energy policies, the Civil Service, immigration policies, excessive regulation, the NHS, policing, the armed forces, the MoD, a range of education problems, including universities, useless quangos, taxpayer-supported charities think tanks, the BBC and other activist organisations…" were all caused by government. They will never admit it and do the hard work of undoing their elaborately constructed nightmare.
We are stuck with this crap until the civil war is started and finished.
The useless politicians and the establishment elites will just double down on their stupidity and continue calling those who disagree rude names.
DJ - to my mind, Burnham is the Establishment candidate and voters would have achieved more by voting against him. Not much, and Burnham may even surprise us, but voting for him was too mild a reaction.
Mike - I agree, there is no move towards arresting the decline because for them there is no decline, they are fine.
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